The next time you tell ChatGPT that you\u2019re allergic to avocados or prefer all meeting notes to be formatted in bullet points, the chatbot might be able to remember those details indefinitely.<\/p>\n
OpenAI is testing an option for users to ask the popular chatbot to retain specific information from one exchange to the next, the artificial intelligence startup said in a blog post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT will also be able to automatically determine which tidbits from a user\u2019s conversations should be remembered.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u00a0will initially make the features available to hundreds of thousands of free and paid ChatGPT users, with plans to review feedback before rolling it out more widely, the company\u00a0told Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n
The new memory feature\u00a0marks OpenAI\u2019s latest attempt to\u00a0make its most well-known product more useful \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>and personalised \u2014 for its 100 million weekly users as the startup faces a growing list of rivals offering comparable chatbots.<\/p>\n While building up a more detailed history for each user could create new privacy concerns, it\u2019s also an effective way for internet companies to tailor each person\u2019s experience and lock in customers.<\/p>\n OpenAI previously gave people the ability to provide\u00a0custom\u00a0instructions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to ChatGPT\u00a0<\/strong>to avoid making users repeat their preferences in each chat, but the new feature\u00a0goes beyond that.<\/p>\n Joanne Jang, OpenAI\u2019s product lead who focuses\u00a0on how its AI models respond to people,\u00a0demonstrated the feature\u2019s potential by providing\u00a0<\/strong>ChatGPT with\u00a0<\/strong>three different facts, one in each of\u00a0three different chats.<\/p>\n Jang\u00a0wrote that\u00a0<\/strong>she has a toddler named Lina who will soon turn five, that Lina loves jellyfish, and that Lina likes the color pink.<\/p>\n In a fourth chat, Jang simply asked ChatGPT to make a birthday card for her daughter.<\/p>\n The chatbot\u00a0used\u00a0<\/strong>OpenAI\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>DALL-E 3 image-generator\u00a0to make\u00a0a pink card with pink jellyfish on it that read: \u201cHappy 5th Birthday Lina.\u201d<\/p>\n OpenAI will notify people if they gain access to the feature, the company said.<\/p>\n Those with the feature will be able to delete individual details that have been saved, wipe all of it at once, or choose to switch off the option entirely.<\/p>\n Users can also ask ChatGPT what it remembers to get a rundown of any information\u00a0it has retained over time.<\/p>\n ChatGPT already steers users away from offering it sensitive personal information, such as passwords or passport numbers, and the new feature is designed to refuse to save such data, Jang said.<\/p>\n Information that is saved in the user\u2019s ChatGPT\u00a0memory\u00a0will be treated as normal conversational data, which means it can be used to train the company\u2019s AI models, unless users\u00a0have opted to withhold their chats from training<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Liam Fedus, a research scientist who works on ChatGPT and GPT-4, one of the AI models that powers the chatbot,\u00a0said the memory feature will be able to store a couple thousand tokens\u00a0of written information.<\/p>\n